Khorixas
Khorixas is a town of about 6,800 inhabitants in Kunene in Namibia. The town is near an important deposit of petrified wood and the Twyfelfontein valley, known for its rock art.
- Town with 6,900 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 931 metres (3,054 feet)
- Description: town in Namibia
- Also known as“Wallwitch”“Wellwitsch”“Welwitsch”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khorixas Constituency.
Khorixas Constituency
Locality
Khorixas Constituency is an electoral constituency in Namibia.
Khorixas
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Latitude
-20.3738° or 20° 22′ 26″ south
Longitude
14.9604° or 14° 57′ 38″ east
Open location code
5FFPJXG6+F5
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Khorixas” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Khorixas”
- Asturian: “Khorixas”
- Cebuano: “Khorixas”
- Chinese: “霍里克薩斯”
- Danish: “Khorixas”
- Dutch: “Khorixas”
- Finnish: “Khorixas”
- French: “Khorixas”
- German: “Khorixas”
- German: “Sorris Sorris”
- German: “Sorris-Sorris”
- German: “Welwitschia”
- Irish: “Khorixas”
- Italian: “Khorixas”
- Italian: “Welwitschia”
- Moksha: “Хориксас”
- Polish: “Khorixas”
- Portuguese: “Khorixas”
- Romanian: “Khorixas”
- Russian: “Кхорихас”
- Spanish: “Khorixas”
- Swahili: “Khorixas”
- Swedish: “Khorixas”
- Zulu: “Khorixas”
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